"Hello everyone...i am so very blessed, grateful and thankful to have you all in my life...shining love, prayers and positive energy my way during this experience. So i have multiple fractures in my right cheek, roof of mouth and upper jaw and i will have to get 2-3 metal plates surgically implanted to pull things together again. the cheek is the worst and there are few skull pieces indented and floating out place. the roof of my mouth is cracked up middle and i can feel bones moving up into my sinuses and inner skull but bones are binding together slowly. TMJ area of jaw is cracked as well mid jaw causing my right side upper teeth to move inward and my teeth are not lining up properly but close. so next friday it looks like i will go into surgery and have these things fixed followed by possibly wiring my jaw shut for 2-4 weeks. yay!! but i know that i am blessed regardless...could have hit my eye, nose or front teeth and been a lot worse. my face hurts but my heart is warm with love and compassion. your thoughtfulness and concern humble me even more. i love you all and wish you blessings always. thank you again. this too shall pass and i will make it through. in a deep bow...respect."

been thinking about starting a thread about this, it always depresses me a bit at the end of an event when fighters hobble away, unrecognised by the crowd, to deal with pain and injuries - and most people who just watched them fight hardly know who they are or care.

Well That sounds fucking horrific,literally broke his face. Also,with all the chat about bits of bone floating round, a fracture here, a break there- am wondering what he meant by 'could of been worse' referring to getting caught on his nose!?! Worse how? Worse as in putting his nose into his fucking brain like loads of folk could do back in the 80's before the Internet? A party trick a lot of people had heard of but seldom seen....